The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
BENJAMIN HAYDONFortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
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Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
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Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
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If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
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